Tuesday, March 18, 2014
MORNING BRIEFING: Seattle news helicopter crash and Russia's move to annex Crimea
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The Spokane City Council voted last night to prohibit installing water and sewer services in contested developments outside of city limits until any legal issues are resolved. (S-R)
The Washington State Patrol busted a large illegal marijuana grow yesterday in Plaza, Wash., south of Spokane on Highway 195. (KXLY)
The Diamond Cup hydroplane races are returning to Coeur d'Alene this summer after a successful run last year following a long hiatus. (KXLY)
Donna Perry, (formerly Douglas Perry) a Spokane woman accused of killing three prostitutes in 1990, allegedly told her cellmate she killed nine people, according to newly released court records. (KHQ)
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Two people are dead and one person has been critically injured after a KOMO news helicopter crashed during take-off in downtown Seattle this morning. (Seattle Times)
Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed a draft treaty to annex Crimea to Russia, despite condemnation from the White House and EU leaders. (NYT)
Scientists at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics have made a new discovery relating to the origins of our universe, via gravitational waves tracing back to the fractions of a second after the Big Bang. (CNET)
The Spokane City Council voted last night to prohibit installing water and sewer services in contested developments outside of city limits until any legal issues are resolved. (S-R)
The Washington State Patrol busted a large illegal marijuana grow yesterday in Plaza, Wash., south of Spokane on Highway 195. (KXLY)
The Diamond Cup hydroplane races are returning to Coeur d'Alene this summer after a successful run last year following a long hiatus. (KXLY)
Donna Perry, (formerly Douglas Perry) a Spokane woman accused of killing three prostitutes in 1990, allegedly told her cellmate she killed nine people, according to newly released court records. (KHQ)
THERE
Two people are dead and one person has been critically injured after a KOMO news helicopter crashed during take-off in downtown Seattle this morning. (Seattle Times)
Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed a draft treaty to annex Crimea to Russia, despite condemnation from the White House and EU leaders. (NYT)
Scientists at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics have made a new discovery relating to the origins of our universe, via gravitational waves tracing back to the fractions of a second after the Big Bang. (CNET)
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